"Whether the colour change happens to benefit the bee in any way is still an open question that we’d love to explore," lead author Madeleine Ostwald told IFLScience.

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A type of bee can change its color based on humidity. Dry air makes it look blue green, while humid air shifts it to coppery ...

In this quick experiment, I use hot and cold water, food coloring, and two flasks to show how convection and density really ...

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How a 1960s art school experiment proved that the most compelling artists seek to find problems, not solve them.

Researchers have found that a swirling water vortex can force opposing waves to form rotating lines of stillness across an ...